SANDY,
Utah (Friday, June 3, 2011)– Real Salt Lake (5-2-2, 17 pts.; T-5th in West) will look to
rebound from its first regular season home defeat in more than two years when
its takes to the Rio Tinto Stadium field tomorrow, Saturday, June 4,
for the first time against MLS expansion side Vancouver Whitecaps FC
(1-5-7, 10 pts.; 9th in West). Kickoff in Sandy between RSL and
Vancouver is slated for 7:00 p.m. MT and will be preceded by the Carnival
Real pre-game festival on the stadium’s East Lawn at 5:00 p.m.

Below is the Issuu Document Reader and link to the MLS Game Guide (Game Notes) in advance of Saturday’s
first-ever meeting between Real Salt Lake and Vancouver Whitecaps FC at Rio
Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah. If you have any problems downloading the document
as an attachment or are seeking more information on the match, please contact
John Koluder in the RSL Communications Department via email at jkoluder@RealSaltLake.com.

Two Vancouver players
once called RSL home, as GK Jay Nolly (7 MLS, 3 Open Cup and 17 reserve
games from 2005-06) and FW Atiba Harris (43 MLS, 2 Open Cup and 12
reserve games across 2006-07) wore the Claret-and-Cobalt in the Rice-Eccles
Stadium days … Vancouver’s Head Athletic Trainer, Jacob Joachim, was
RSL’s ATC from 2005-10 before moving home to the Pacific Northwest … FW Cody
Arnoux appeared 7 times with Vancouver’s USL team in 2010 following his
Everton FC stint out of Wake Forest, and was awarded to RSL in a player lottery
earlier this year as he rehabs his torn left knee ACL suffered in Vancouver
last November … New VAN Head Coach Tom Soehn played 39 games for the
Dallas Burn in 1997-98, as a teammate of both current RSL Head Coach Jason
Kreis and Asst. Coach Jeff Cassar.